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Seven nights on beautiful Lindau Island
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Charming castles in both Austria and Germany, and mighty Zeppelins can be seen on this wonderful rail tour. Our base is on the pretty island of Lindau at Lake Constance, a huge expanse which is bordered by three countries.
We meet at our exclusive Departure Office at St Pancras International, before taking the Eurostar to Brussels, travelling in Standard Premier Class, and enjoy a light meal and drinks served at our seats. In Brussels we change trains and continue by highspeed train to Cologne for an overnight stay at a centrally located hotel.
Today we leave Cologne and travel by train to Lindau in First Class, where we arrive in the late afternoon Enjoy the breathtaking scenery during the journey, which takes us along the spectacular Rhine Gorge, with its many fairytale castles nestled amongst lush vineyards. Our journey then takes us onwards through the beautiful Bavarian countryside. We spend seven nights at the Hotel Reutemann-Seegarten in Lindau, one of the most beautiful towns in Bavaria. Located on a small island on the edge of Lake Constance, it boasts fantastic views over the lake towards the Swiss and Austrian Alps.
Today we travel up into the Austrian Alps, where we board the narrow-gauge Bregenzerwald Railway (steam-hauled on some dates). We enjoy a short journey through the pretty mountains and meadows above Bregenz. We continue by coach to Feldkirch, a beautiful town whose historic centre has remained well preserved to this day.
As well as a number of 15th century houses, Feldkirch retains some of the towers of its city walls. We enjoy a guided tour of the 12th century Feldkirch Castle, which dominates the town and affords a great panorama over the surrounding landscape.
Our excursion today is one of the highlights of the tour, as we travel by coach to the small town of Meersburg. Perched on a rocky outcrop overlooking the lake, Meersburg's beautiful centre has a labyrinth of narrow lanes lined with half-timbered houses. The town is famous for its castle perched on the hillside above the lake, which dates from 628 AD.
After a tour, we have time to explore this charming town and its tangle of cobbled streets before crossing Lake Constance by ferry to Mainau, known as the Garden, or Flower Island. Here you are free to stroll through the beautiful palm trees and flower filled gardens, and take in the hot-houses and fountains which surround the Baroque church and castle at the heart of the island.
The wonderful gardens of this island are excellent to get lost in, since every path takes you to a new and often more impressive fl oral display. The Italian water steps represent flower arranging at its finest, with steps of flowers flanking a small water feature. The arboretum here actually has over 500 species of trees from all over the world, both deciduous and coniferous.
Today you are free to relax, explore at your leisure, or enjoy the hotel's facilities. You could perhaps visit nearby Überlingen, which boasts one of the region's best promenades. If you are feeling adventurous, perhaps take the train to the historic city of Ulm, famous for being the birthplace of Albert Einstein and for its rich architectural heritage, including the magnificent cathedral. Sat on the majestic Danube river, there is much to discover here, in particular, the aforementioned cathedral, which is thought to have the world's tallest spire, rising an impressive 530ft above the ground.
Alternatively, you could make the spectacular journey over the Arlberg Pass to the Alpine resort of St Anton am Arlberg, a very popular place for skiers and hikers alike. Very much a winter sports resort, this small town is excellent for those wishing to venture into the mountains on any of the marked trails in the nearby countryside.
This morning we take a leisurely boat trip along the lake to Friedrichshafen, once home to Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin, builder and pioneer of the famous airships, and now home to the Zeppelin Museum. We enjoy a guided tour of this fascinating museum, which includes a reconstruction of a section of the doomed Hindenburg airship that made its maiden voyage across the Atlantic in 1936. We enjoy some free time in Friedrichshafen this afternoon, perhaps to enjoy a walk along the promenade, or to take in the pretty harbour, before we return to Lindau by regional train.
This morning we enjoy a guided walking tour of Lindau and experience the town's rich history, which dates back to the 13th century. The afternoon is free to explore; as a former Free Imperial City, Lindau still boasts the romantic alleys and dreamy courtyards of its medieval past. You may wish to stroll along the lakeside promenade to the harbour. Widely regarded as the prettiest on Lake Constance, the harbour is home to a famous lighthouse which is well worth a visit. Lindau also boasts the Maximilianstrasse, the town's main shopping street, so you may like to spend the afternoon browsing the shops it has to offer. Alternatively you could visit Lindau's historic Town Hall, or its lighthouse. The southernmost lighthouse in Germany the Lindau Lighthouse is 108ft high and sports a clock in its facade which is quite unusual for lighthouses of this type. It was built from 1853 at the entrance to the harbour, throughout the years it has undergone a number of upgrades to its light and today uses a system that is activated on the request of ships via radio signal.
We return to Cologne by train today. Our arrival in the early evening gives you a little free time to discover the city's magnificent Gothic cathedral, its historic streets and elegant squares and perhaps enjoy a stroll through the charming Old Town to the Rhine.
Today we depart from Cologne, and travel by high-speed train to Brussels. Here we board the Eurostar service back to London. Upon arrival in the English capital, your tour concludes.
While all departures will feature the same excursions (except where explicitly mentioned), the order of excursions may differ from that given above.
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The hotel was lovely and located right on the lake. Our tour was very well organised and our fellow travellers were great fun. We had the most lovely tour guide, Simone.
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The week before Christmas was a momentous one for the Hillsborough families.
The High Court told them that the evidence published by the Independent Hillsborough Panel had made it inevitable that the accidental death verdicts in the original inquests would be overturned.
On December 19, 2012, 23 years and eight months after their loved ones died at a football match, the families were finally told officially it was no accident.
People on Merseyside have always known that the accidental death verdict was a cover up for the failings of the police but for the families to finally hear it was further vindication that they were right to keep the fight going.
The 96 who died in April 1989 were not responsible for their own deaths and the lies and cover ups by senior police officers and by some sections of the media are now facing proper investigation as well. The Home Secretary has announced a further inquiry into the police actions on the day and in the aftermath.
And on the same day that the inquest verdicts were finally overturned, George Howarth, the MP for Knowsley asked the Prime Minister to waive the VAT on the Hillsborough CD, 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother'. The Prime Minister confirmed that the VAT would not be charged and that the extra money would go to help the families. Then the next day, Angela Eagle, the MP for Wallasey asked the Leader of the House of Commons to confirm that the government would help the families with their legal costs for the new inquests. This request, too, was granted.
It has taken 23 years too long for justice to start to be done, but in the space of a week, a number of big steps have been taken. One of my constituents is Barry Devonside, whose son Christopher was one of those who died at Hillsborough. Barry told me that he was 42 years old when his son died. By the time that the new inquests have been held and all prosecutions carried out, he may be 70.
No one should have to wait so long for the truth to be recognised or for justice to be delivered. Barry will have fought for justice for Christopher for much of his adult life.
The same is true for all of the families. Anne Williams has fought for a new inquest for her son Kevin despite being turned down in a previous application to the court. Anne is very ill but she has the satisfaction of knowing that there will be a new inquest for Kevin. The Lord Chief Justice has called for new inquests to be held as soon as possible, hopefully next year.
The news of the new inquests was welcomed by the families and by their supporters but it was of course a bitter sweet victory. Nothing can bring back the 96 people who went to watch a football match and didn't come home. But everything can be done now to ensure justice with new inquest verdicts and with prosecutions for those who contributed to the disaster and for those who covered up what happened on that April day so long ago.
These are tough times for most people, as austerity continues to bite especially hard across Merseyside. Next year will bring uncertainty and difficulties for many people. But at this time of year, I hope that people can find time to celebrate Christmas and to enjoy time with family and friends.
Can I therefore wish everyone in Sefton Central a very enjoyable festive season and a peaceful new year.

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Let us acknowledge that enterprise information management is a program similar to other programs that have been proposed over the past three decades. As such, you will likely find the following within your organizations:
- A perception that data initiatives (such as CRM and data dictionaries) fail all the time.
- A perception of wasteful spending on any "pure" information management projects.
- Hearty criticism of information technology area (IT)
- Ongoing complaints that the IT data is not "correct" and as a result, business areas need to create accurate data.
- A growth of stealth or shadow IT in reaction to the poor perception of IT.
- Plentiful evidence of projects that are implemented with shortcomings with the intention of addressing them later, and of course later never happens.
Rational people can look at the permutations of IT projects and say that they are of value. But the track record of prior projects makes full-scale EIM hard to swallow. The cruel fact is that without a good, solid, money-in-the-bank business case, EIM is a waste of time. History has determined that executives will not pay attention to petitions based on better access to data or single versions of truth. These were promised years ago, and the concepts are now part and parcel of corporate thought and myth. It's sad but true. Just because the concepts are ingrained in corporate thought does not mean that a business leader will embrace EIM – he or she embraces the ideas that EIM represents. Barring any other influence, the business leader will craft those ideas into the image he or she needs at the time. That image has to be in the form of a solid business vision. To help create the appropriate influence for an EIM program that supports corporate strategy, a solid business case is required.
We know at some instinctive level that EIM is good, and we have talked about information enough to accept that it is an asset that needs to be treated in a formal manner. But due to the abstract features of information and data, we need to be creative in addressing the challenges of bridging those good feelings over to a business case.
Some components of EIM, like the technologies for data movement mechanisms, are, in effect, plumbing. Using an asset metaphor, they are infrastructure and could be valued across the entire enterprise. Other components of EIM or asset classes such as information handling and other applications lend themselves to direct business usage and business touchpoints, so we can likely tie some kind of benefit to their usage.
The asset metaphor therefore needs to determine how to make a solid business case that will focus and direct the entire enterprise and make EIM a philosophical underpinning versus a one-off program that delivers a "chunk" of information management.
Key IT and Business Considerations
The business case must also address IT failures and negative perceptions of IT departments. While perceptions may or may not be grounded in truth, they exist, and an ingrained perception that IT does not deliver will poison EIM. EIM should be delivered by the entire organization with causality spread between business and technology camps. Negative perceptions of IT can stem from many causes.
It is easy to blame IT. Information projects are sold with inflated expectations and therefore an EIM effort needs to develop a business case that not only manages but delivers realistic prospects. The case must also be business aligned and reflect directions required in current and planned business environments. Even if the component parts are plumbing, they need to be kept in the context of a larger organizational mission.
The IM road is littered with projects where IM staffs have locked businesspeople in rooms to draw models and define dimensions. These might be noble efforts, but they are not attention grabbers. To be realistic and accepted, the EIM effort must not be based on abstractions that depict business rules and models leading to nirvanas of business success. IM teams have been selling their techniques and tools as final products, but this is clearly the wrong approach.
Conversely, business needs to empower the IT function. The reality is that when IT projects are successful, IT often gets little or no credit for the benefits. . This particular view of benefits is a result of business not considering IT as part of the business. Nearly all initiatives require data of some sort. A business unit cannot claim all the benefits from an initiative if its objectives were enabled by data or information provided by IT. Even if the data is not from IT, it is still corporate data that cannot be claimed by a department. We should approach EIM with the mindset that benefits from data usage are global.
In cases where a business area leader really wants "better data," and is willing to push hard and expend political capital, he or she rarely does so without a thoughtful business case that matches responsibilities across business and IT.
- The business case must address accountability. If the goals are not met, who is responsible? Historically, it has been easy to blame IT for failures to communicate, or to insist on business terminology that communicates requirements poorly. The business needs to share in the accountability of the project, even where execution falls largely to IT.
- Business leaders are poorly incented to do well at IM projects. We often hear that a good business sponsor is key to the success of an EIM effort, but sponsors also need to be invested in outcomes. The business sponsor can be as excited and supportive as can be imagined. But if, at the end of the year, his/her bonus or compensation is not tied to EIM-related goals, enthusiasm might not hold up to stress or business changes. The business case requires that business accountability be built into sponsors' objectives and personal targets.
- Once IT projects are approved and undertaken, there is a tendency for interest to wane or old habits to return. Business areas need to understand that the investments continue beyond deployment, and that effort and will is required to sustain the project's goals. Therefore, the business case must accommodate the costs and benefits of sustaining the effort and ensuring things change.
Principles play a major role in ensuring EIM success. Understanding business cases means introducing principles ahead of time.
1. All business cases are to be developed upon hard benefits. Soft benefits are added after hard benefits are derived. Rationale: hard benefits address the accountability and measurement issues. Hard benefits also help justify funding additional costs to sustain necessary organizational and functional changes. Even if the program contains infrastructure-type projects, the business must be looking for business gains.
Implications: Many IT staff are not business savvy, especially in areas of finance. Training may be necessary to get the business case developed. At minimum, IT staff will need to interact with financial personnel.
2. Benefits from data projects belong to the enterprise, not the sponsoring department. Rationale: This principle or policy immediately removes objections to IT claiming benefits. IT also reinforces the joint accountability of IT and business; in essence, it makes the convergence of IT and business real.
Implications: Functional area heads will not like this. There will need to be reinforcement from the highest level of an organization. At minimum, policies for incentives and job descriptions may change.
The deployment of these principles is demonstrated in the figure. The left margin shows how organizations can use information and knowledge. (This example came from a client that also folded a knowledge and content management strategy into EIM.) The top shows the means by which we can see benefits. Note that the intersections of these are stated as benefits and none of these benefits can occur without the application of knowledge and information.
Components of Business Cases
Now that we know what roadblocks we may run into and have some principles on hand to assist us, what should be in the business case? Where do the benefits come from?
The basic components of the EIM business case are:
- Business goals and objectives: These are the quantitative statements of where the business wants to go. If a business wants to improve market share, you need to know what kind of revenue that represents.
- Business benefits and categories: If the business achieves its objectives, what are the anticipated effects on balance sheets and income statements? Those who believe this cannot be realistically done should consider cost/benefit analysis as a way to connect investments to objectives. For example, think about the case of a medium-sized town that has grown enough to need a larger airport. Airports tend to be infrastructure investments in which certain parties (taxpayers) are asked to fund something that is difficult to link directly to hard dollar benefits. However, it is apparent to all that the region will not grow more tax revenue, more jobs and better schools without the new airport. How, then, is the funding justified? It is traded by adding up the benefits to the region and applying them to the cost of the airport. Does the airport get the money? Not directly. Are there measurable benefits? Yes. Benefits may not be hard in the ROI sense, but they exist and have hard numbers associated with them. The closer to cash flow benefits can be stated, the better.
- Business usage or business information requirements: This is the business view of what information is required to achieve the goals. These can be in the form of measurements, content or descriptions of data types.
- Cost to supply usage: The creation, movement and preparation of data to be used incurs cost. This is the mundane part of adding up the project efforts, investments in software, hardware and networks, and cleaning up the data so it is useful. (Cleaning data and data quality will be a separate topic in this series.)
- Cost to sustain usage: Once up and running, the EIM program will require maintenance.
- Cost to manage risk: Often data portfolios contain risk – either from potential liability such as privacy concerns, or failure to comply with a regulation. The costs and potential liability need to be stated in financial terms.
All of these added together present a fairly robust picture and provide the raw material to develop the business case for EIM. In my next article, I will provide an example of how these components are folded into a vision that allows an organization to track and manage EIM and ensure the benefits are incurred from treating information as an asset.
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I also fully subscribe to the fact that we need to improve community diversity, that part is not red tape. - Joe On 23 Jan 2013, at 22:19, Gary Martin <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > On 23 January 2013 20:14, Branko Čibej <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > >> On 23.01.2013 20:45, Joe Dreimann wrote: >>> I don't know if it's allowed to combine both votes, but I'm in favour of >> it if it is. >> >> It's not. IPMC procedures dictate that the project community shall do >> everything necessary to produce an Apache release, then the IPMC will >> review those results by means of a second release vote. The idea being >> that as long as the project is a podling, it's learning the ropes. > > I was pretty sure that was the case but I happened to check here: > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html#best-practice-incubator-release-vote > and noted that the wording "The conventional process is for the podling to > follow the usual Apache process" is quite suggestive that there is the > potential for something other than a conventional process. What confuses me > is that I felt that I knew it was definitely a two stage vote - did I get > that from a different source? Anyway, it seemed worth checking. > > >> >> Note that you wouldn't really gain much by going straight to the IPMC, >> since that vote thread is initialized with existing mentor votes. > > Well, I could try to argue advantages of only having the possibility of > just 72 hours of voting but I am not attempting to get a change in the > rules of the incubator so it is all moot. > > >>> In relation to the currently stalled voting, I'd like to propose Gary as >> a future IPMC member. Is there a process for this? >> >> As soon as he becomes an ASF member, he can also become an IPMC member. > > Sounds good for some far off future when Bloodhound is out of incubation. > If it were possible before then it would just seem like an abuse of the > position. > > > >>> Also or alternatively, is there a process for recruiting further >> mentors? Or is it "simply" a case of picking out potential mentors and >> asking them? >> >> It's more or less a matter of asking on the IPMC. Really, though, this >> project has enough active mentors, and relying on purely mentor votes >> sounds like "cheating". > > We already have enough IPMC members in principle but everyone has limited > time and I do not feel that it is right to insist on their vote. In > addition, while I want votes to be completed quickly I would also prefer > new people examining our release each time as this increases the chance of > spotting issues that we have missed. > > >> The proper way to avoid blocking on release votes is to graduate. :) >> Which I believe this community is ready for. Except for the community >> diversity issue, which you're all actively working on. >> >> I know it's frustrating, but even though I'm typically prepared to cut >> through a lot of red tape, I do feel that community diversity is >> important. And we all know exactly how diverse this particular community >> is. > I have no objection at all to that point of view. > > Cheers, > Gary
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With the arrival of the first couple of local albacore and the sighting of bluefin and albacore by multi-day boats between 80 and 120 miles, anglers may be able to look forward to some decent longfin fishing this summer. Apollo brought in an albacore, as did the Legend. Art Taylor had news of more albacore aboard Searcher. Hes fishing now at Cedros Island; see his following report.
It takes more than a couple of fish to get things rolling, though, so the next event of meaning will be a decent catch for a day boat or a boat on a day and a half trip. Yellowtail fishing should pick up as well, and the yellowtail catch brought in by the Success this morning may herald a forktail bite.
Early-season albies have some peculiar habits, and anglers should be aware of that behavior to maximize catches, which tend to start small and then get up to limit fishing as the fish pile into our waters.
First, anglers should know that early albies dont usually stick around the boat, scarfing up chum the way they do in mid and late summer. All of the trolling rods may go off at once, but the window of opportunity is likely to be limited to a very few minutes. For waiting bait fishermen, the first one to get a bait into the water and across a longfins nose is the angler wholl get bit.
It can be a live bait, a dead bait or a plastic or iron jig, but speed of presentation matters, as these fish often roar off as quickly as they arrive. A small weight may also may a difference, if the fish arent coming up to the surface. At this early stage, trolling often takes as many albacore as bait fishing. For best success with the Zuckers, the Cedar Plug, the Hootchie, Spinnerhead, Jethead or whatever jig youre hanging back in the wake, remember the old adage, troll dark lures in the morning, evening and in other low light conditions; fish bright-colored lures when the sun is out.
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Today was spent cranking on quality Yellowtail all day long, said the report from Intrepid June 16, 2008.
We had a great day of fishing with all techniques working well. The fish were 25 to 40-pounds, and were on the chew throughout the day. We also caught and released an estimated 180-pound Black Seabass, one of two hooked! Many trophy-sized calico bass were released as well.
"We had so much fun today that everyone wants to do it again tomorrow. The weather is absolutely perfect and the fresh fish dinner prepared by Javier and Hector topped off an already outstanding day.
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We had good yellowtail fishing today at Cedros Island, wrote owner-skipper Art Taylor aboard Searcher June 16, 2008.
The majority of the fish were caught on fly-lined sardines, with a few fish caught on surface iron. All of the fish are good grade, averaging 20 or more pounds. The weather is great and we are looking forward to tomorrow. We are spending another full day here at Cedros.
On the local scene today there was some good news. A boat at 65 miles from San Diego caught 15 albacore today. They saw fish on the meter and sonar, and it was mixed sizes--13-24 pounds. Another boat got in the area late and had a few fish. A little further south, around 150 miles from San Diego, a boat had six albacore today so hopefully this is the start to a great season.
Some more good news from here is our new chef is doing a wonderful job with some new fresh ideas. Everyone has enjoyed his cooking so far!
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In just a couple of days, Bill Roecker and Paul Sweeney are scheduled to take a ride on the Red Rooster III. Well be out with chartermaster George Daniels on the Tom Hultgen Memorial Charter with 26 or 28 anglers. Are we excited? You bet!
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CjCity Interview with CATCH A BODY MAGAZINE [jujurightnow]
1 – One year ago you started a 'Bar Breakdown' series on your YouTube Channel CjCity TV… How did you come up with the idea?
The whole concept was really inspired by Chilla Jones Vs B-magic. You had one guy doing setup punchline… set up punchline… set up punchline and another guy with these secretive "Schemes" within his rds. This was when schemes were fairly new btw so fans were quick to say Chilla got washed 3-0 cause he's boring and has too much filler. I was baffled and thought to myself, maybe they don't see whats going on here cause damn near every line has a meaning. At times Chilla has the least amount of filler. I decided to break it down, not necessarily to school people or change anybodys mind. I just simply wanted to let people understand fully what was going on and then let them decide. Fans really appreciated how in depth and detailed I was, It grew from there… Norbes took a liking to my show and here I am.
2 – You really went into details with your explanations… were some battlers impressed with your work? Which one was the most difficult one to break down?Actually, Nuborn and Superwriter were the first to shout me out. Danja Zone called me soon after when I first started. They were super impressed that I caught so many bars. I see these guys at events and its nothing but love. Cortez, Chilla, Verb and Clips showed the most love but I think all the battlers appreciate my work. Remember this was before the whole bars over names thing ever got started. Back when people said Tsu beat Con or Jc beat Young Kannon just because they were fans of the rapper and not really judging bars man. I feel I kinda helped put the focus back on BARS. The hardest battlers to breakdown for sure are Lux and Daylyt. I never put it out cause I was so busy but Daylyt vs Kg The Poet Bar for Bar breakdown was one of the most difficult ones I've done.
3 – What's your opinion on the new wave of battlers, lyrically… who's your favorite?
I like the fact that everyone shifted their styles and geared more towards bars, but I don't like this wordplay frenzy we are in. Where someone might say "I De ter Gents… Deter Gents" just to make it sound like detergent. I love wordplay but sometimes it's too much man. A lot of people sound the same. Some of my favorites are Ty Law, Chilla, X factor, Rum Nitty, Cortez, Cityy Towers, Presidential Dub, Nuborn, Danja zone, the list really goes on and on…
4 – What did you think of the UFF event overall so far? And did you agree with the judges on the winners?
I like it. It's better than last year for sure, but like I said… too much of the wordplay. HA double was a perfect example. It just got boring at times. I've seen HA flame dudes before so it's not that he's wack at all. Just think people should stay away from that style of rap. It's like name flips… It comes a point in time where it just gets played out. I like the match ups, and it sounded like they had more time to prepare this time. Danny Myers, Sno and Prez really impressed me. The only battle I felt the judges got wrong was the Ty Law vs Prez battle. To me Ty Law got that even with the slip up.
5 – Do you like where battle rap is going at the moment? Leagues booming everywhere, 'Total Slaughter' reality show…. I do. It's at the forefront and everybody watches it. Battle rap is on MTV and BET, the two main stations for music. It's really become a genre of its own. I hate the new leagues to be honest. I like I-Battle, KOTD, We Go Hard and anybody else who's building artist from their own cities, but some people just book all the big names and try to make a quick buck. In my eyes that is putting a black eye on battle rap. They ruin potential classic because dudes can say I only did it for the check and not write hard, just go light, they throw one round battles and mess everything up. Thats like AMC doing the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight and instead of 12 rds its a 4 rd fight smh.
6 – You recently hosted and flipped the coin for the B Magic & Rum Nitty battle on KOTD… can you tell who won? I had Rum Nitty 2-1. I gotta do a bar for bar breakdown so I can catch more bars but I'm sure I won't change my mind on that. They both went it. Shout out B-magic for coming to Cali and taking Nitty serious. I got super respect for him after doing that.
7 – And what did you think of the whole Vendetta 2 card overall? KOTD has really come back to the forefront of the battle rap scene nowadays… Card was crazy man. I was let down by a few battles, like Big T vs Bender and Verb vs Caustic but everything else was crazy. KOTD is really out here working, so salute them. Especially for throwing more events in the West so I don't have to fly outta town anymore to see them.
8 – Give me your three favorite battle rappers of the West Coast… Daylyt, Rum Nitty, and Dizaster. I know Diz is a mess, I know he's sloppy, but when it comes to the art of rap. That guy is something special fam…
9 – By the way, where are you from man? Did you grow up in a Hip Hop/battle rap environment? I'm from I.E (Inland Empire) Moreno Valley… Riverside County! I was a fan of battle rap since day one. The first time I ever rapped a word was in a battle. Had no idea what I was doing, I just wanted the females to like me and get popular at school bro lol. Followed the rap Olympics, blaze battles, Scribble jams, Smack DVD's all that.
10 – What dream match-up that hasn't happened yet do you want to see? I wanna see Loaded Lux vs The Charlie Clips that battle Aye Verb… I wanna see Conceited vs Cassidy so Con could wash him once and for all… Conceited vs Nuborn … Chilla Jones vs B Magic pt 2 … I wanna see Pat Stay on URL, Magic vs Ty law … Maybe Eminem vs Lux too. The list goes on for this as well…
11 – You recently dropped a mixtape 'Souled Out'… which had a lot of dope tracks. Was it your first mixtape and how did that come to fruition? Naw I had more mixtapes before that. I really been around the block. Wrote for artists, rapped in a group so I been doing it a while now. The mixtape idea came as I was working on another project. Had the whole club songs and bangers ready to go, but mid way I was like why?? I just wanted to drop something that I felt. I just sold out to what I felt in my soul and that's why I called it 'Souled Out'. It was like an intermission from the other music I was writing, it took about 3 months to do. I think we all should just write music we feel, not cater to what's popular or try to make hits to get a record deal. I started the mixtape off and said "I use to want a record Deal but them Deals nobody Deal's out!" I also said on the same track "I seen rappers make hits, but HITS DON'T MAKE RAPPERS… others chasing after a hit, BUT AINT NO HITS AFTER." Pretty much implying make the music you wanna make. All I ask is for something dope and creative at the end of the day.
12 – On the track 'The Long Way' you speak about having to blog to get some exposure and finally do your music… talk to us about that… Yeah, funny you spoke on 'Long Way' cause that was just some lyrical exercise. I just penned down what I felt in that moment, that's why it's only one verse. Every now and again I just toss a beat on and write whatever with no intentions on using it. For some reason it made the project though. With that line I was just referring to back in the days, I had an older YouTube channel that I just upload my music and stuff on. It never took off like that, because as you know, it's a million artist or a million funny comedic bloggers on YouTube. I just found it crazy that the battle rap blogs I created took off and I never thought that's where most of my fans on YouTube would come from.
13 – You got Ayeverb, Cortez & Mickey Factz on there… all of them belong to the battle rap world and also make good music. Are they some of your favorite battle rap artists? Definitely. I like all three of them and respect what they do. I actually had a project I was working on where ever track was going to showcase a different battle rapper and that's where those songs came from. I might still do that one day but I'm on some other type music right now. My next few projects are going to be more concept based or story telling so not sure Ima do it anytime soon. We shall see though.
14 – Do you want to be a rapper full time or do you have other things on the side? What do you want to achieve ultimately? Definitely wanna make my mark in music. I'm out performing, doing shows, writing, so yeah. I'm an artist first. I really want to bring bars and creativity to the rap world or main stream industry. I mean when's the last time you heard a major artist get on a track and bar out. Or tell a story that was crazy or just did something completely different? I wanna be the forefront to drive other artist to story tell, come up with a concept, get on a track and bar out, do something other than club songs and ratchet music. I wanna be the spokes person for creativity man. Let's be artist and paint and do something CREATIVE.
15 – Who do you like in the Hip Hop scene nowadays? What was the last Hip Hop album/mixtape that left a strong impression on you? I like Joe Budden, Kendrick, J Cole, Drake, Jay-z, Wale, little bit of Action Bronson and Los. The last project that really moved me was Mickey Factz 'Mickey Mause'. That really made me wanna start story telling again, which I will be in the next few projects.
16 – Do you see the independent route today as a good thing, in terms of allowing artists to fully express themselves? I see it good as far as exposure goes; it's great an artist can build a fan base on his own now and accomplish his own dreams, but the downfall to that is everybody wants to rap, get on YouTube, put out a mixtape. It gives good artist a hard time to get known because consumers have to weave through so much BS just to find us. As far as the expressing themselves goes… that's cool but honestly I would rather see a MAINSTREAM ARTIST express himself! That's more important to me. Someone has to make it popular again to express yourself and talk about something that means something.
17 – Have you got a new project on the stove already? Yessir. Hopefully dropping by the end of the Year. It's called 'Conception'. Pretty much every song will Conceive a Concept of its own. It's just a project full of Creative Concepts. Like the song I did 'Where am I' For example. On the new one I have a song about a meeting with Jay-Z, or an undercover cop, chasing this kingpin and then when he finally catches him it reveals something crazy at the end, got this crazy part 2, of a 2pac song, stuff like that. Just a project to showcase Concepts and Creativity.
18 – Any last words fam? Yeah, shout out all the fans of my blogs. I appreciate everybody. If you ever see me at events, holla at me, I'm never Hollywood to no body. Please check out all the music I make because its hella dope! I'm not just a blogger. I'm an artist first. My last project did pretty good. Like 25k downloads on Datpiff. Support and show love to CjCityTv on YouTube as well. Shout out Catchabody.mag too!
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This article has the best title: "How do robots calculate best interests?" It's a good article, you can read it at this link, it is about the US Fiduciary Rule, which requires advisers to put their clients' interests before their own. But I'd like to ponder the question posed in the title, by first asking: how do you put the client's interests first. I recently reviewed the file of a case where a client and an adviser are now at loggerheads: they each thought the scope of service meant something different. That was instructive for me.
The review was something of a journey - the adviser has, in the strict legal, and even ethical sense, done nothing wrong. They have never meant to cause any harm. They were thorough enough, according to their scope. Yet the client is deeply unhappy, and it is easy to see how. It was never clearly explained how the adviser was going to look after them. The client lacked the knowledge to question that.
But you have an opportunity to avoid this unhappy outcome of miscommunication. You may define your scope in words the client can clearly understand, and in ways that are measurable - so that when you review the file in a year you can easily prove that you met your scope. Not as a compliance exercise, but so you can take business off the people who don't define their service properly.


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On Saturday night, an elite orchestra made up of the best young musicians across the country, led by conductor Valery Gergiev, will take the stage at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall.
It's not the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Nor is it the orchestra that was just honed at the National Orchestral Institute, held annually at the University of Maryland. It isn't the New World Symphony. And it isn't the NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra, which this summer is bringing young musicians from 28 states and three countries to the Kennedy Center. That orchestra is playing the following night.
No, the one-of-a-kind youth orchestra that's coming here is called the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America; it was founded by Carnegie Hall, and it's in its maiden season.
Our nation hardly lacks youth orchestras. There are six year-round organizations in the Washington area alone. Then there are the ensembles mentioned above, part of a bouquet of festival orchestras that draw students from across the country during the summer. Each has a slightly different mission. But none of them is doing what the National Youth Orchestra (NYO-USA) is doing: taking a bunch of talented kids on tour to some of the leading venues in the world — the Kennedy Center, the Proms in London, the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.
"It's just creating something much bigger than I've ever been in before," says Samuel Matzner, an 18-year-old violist from Arlington.
"There's a great, great culture of youth orchestras in this country," says Clive Gillinson, the executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall in New York. "But none of them act, as a central, core part of their mission, as youth ambassadors for America around the world."
Gillinson is looking to a different model: the kind of touring, high-visibility ensemble represented by the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, or Europe's Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, or the European Union Youth Orchestra. Or, more to the point, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, which Gillinson, a former cellist who played with it for more than two years, still remembers as "one of the most extraordinary experiences of my life."
There's a certain idealism built into the idea of a youth orchestra; that's part of its appeal. Youth orchestras offer a concrete vision of young people behaving in ways older people would like them to — working hard, dressing well (though the NYO-USA's red, white and blue outfits with Converse sneakers are an exception) and immersed in great art.
Gillinson's vision for the NYO-USA is certainly idealistic. He sees it as an elite body made up of "the very, very best young players in [the] country, bringing them together in a wa
y that everybody inspires everybody else." It will epitomize a traditional, not to say antiquated, vision of cultural diplomacy, traveling each year to "a different part of the world, which is important to America's relationships with the world." (This year it's Russia; then, after a tour of the United States next year, China the year after.)
And it is also intended to develop well-rounded citizens. Although college students younger than 19 were allowed to apply, anyone attending a conservatory was not eligible. "Of the finest young players in the country," Gillinson says, "my guess is that at least 30 percent, maybe even 50 percent, won't make music their life. They're just as talented as the ones who will. I think one of the very special things about this community is that these are remarkable people who are going to make their lives in lots of different ways."
Matzner, the violist, could be an example. Although he applied to some conservatories, he will start at Princeton in the fall. A "reason I decided not to go to conservatory," he says, is "once you do that, you're on the professional track." He'd rather pursue music while leaving his options open, something stressed in the Washington Metropolitan Youth Orchestra, in which he played for years.
"The important thing that we emphasize," says Ulysses S. James, the music director of the orchestra's parent organization, the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic, "is that this is something you can do your whole life."
This creates a subtle difference in the NYO-USA's makeup. James Ross, the conductor charged with preparing the musicians for Gergiev's arrival, during nearly two weeks of rehearsals, is no stranger to young orchestras; the head of the orchestral program at U-Md., he also led the National Orchestral Institute there for 11 years. The NYO-USA, he says, is "not as intensely pre-professional as NOI or the New World Symphony." But, he said in an e-mail after the first rehearsals, "it is serving a different kind of purpose in the lives of our participants — more inspirational."
Local youth orchestras, even top-flight ones, can't act on the same scale. "I think we . . . provide the steady, constant training that musicians need," says Margaret Adams, the executive director of the American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras, widely considered the flagship of the D.C.-area youth orchestra programs. "If it were not for what we were doing, these other organizations probably would not be able to recruit at the level they're recruiting."
But the AYPO hasn't toured for some time; its annual operating budget is about $630,000. By contrast, Carnegie Hall — although it won't give a figure for individual projects — plans to raise $10 million for the first five years of the NYO-USA program, with donors including Bloomberg, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, and Ronald O. Perelman. Many youth orchestras charge tuition; the NYO-USA is paying all the players' expenses.
Youth orchestras get to have it both ways. If they play brilliantly, they get accolades; if they do not, they get points for inspiring young players. The NYO-USA is trying to be many things, to many people: the best players, yet the most well-rounded; a national orchestra, but heading to Russia with a heavily Russian program and a Russian conductor (although with a new piece by the young American composer Sean Shepherd, called "Magiya," Russian for "magic").
Gillinson expresses, perhaps unwittingly, the inherent contradictions by comparing the new orchestra to the Olympics, with one difference. "In the arts," he says, "you always win."
In real life, of course, that isn't true. Orchestras fail; gifted musicians struggle to make a living; fine performances are sometimes played to half-empty halls; and none of this is necessarily a reflection on quality. Gillinson concedes that the NYO-USA will partly be measured by audience reactions, reviews and — a big one — the caliber of player the ensemble succeeds in attracting. "If one attracts the finest young players, it will work," he says. "After that, it's what do we do with it."
For the time being, the NYO-USA represents a rare arena in which just making it to the playing field, for the young musicians, really does involve winning. Zeynep Alpan, an 18-year-old violinist from Bethesda, has attended music school in Aspen, Colo., participated in the NSO's fellowship program, and played with the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Afghan Youth Orchestra when they came to town. But, she says, "I have never been on a tour before with an orchestra." And after the opening rehearsals, hearing everyone practicing together, she says, "I don't think I've experienced this kind of energy in any other youth orchestra."
Alpan, a hip-hop dancer who will go to Juilliard in the fall, could be emblematic of the NYO-USA's well-rounded musician, as well as the third part of its mandate — the idea that young musicians can act as ambassadors to spread their love of music to their age group. If only more people knew about music — goes the thinking — they would love it; more children would flock to youth orchestras and learn discipline, citizenship and art. Alpan cites high school students who told her they were suddenly interested in hearing more classical music after hearing her chamber ensemble play a movement of Shostakovich's Quartet No. 8.
Yet contact with music is not always enough to bring about a conversion experience, which Alpan knows firsthand. Her brother, who will be in the audience Saturday, plays the violin, too, but has yet to feel the love.
"He's going to be turning 7," Alpan says. "He doesn't really like it right now. He has been protesting."
The National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America, led by Valery Gergiev and with Joshua Bell as soloist in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, will perform at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. The NSO National Trustees' NSO Summer Music Institute Orchestra will perform at the venue Sunday at 6 p.m. (The second concert is free.)


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Debating Church-State Relations and Related Free-Speech Issues
Supreme Court Report: The Wavering LineSwing votes make the difference in two church-state cases
By David SavageDavid Savage covers the Supreme Court for the Los Angeles Times and writes regularly for the ABA Journal.
This analysis first appeared in the ABA Journal (August 2000): 36.
A pair of Establishment Clause decisions in June found the Supreme Court still in search of a clear line that separates church and state.
Three swing justices pushed the Court in a liberal, then a conservative, direction. On June 19, the Court soundly rejected student-led prayers in the public schools. Then on June 28, the Court cleared the way for more public aid to flow to parochial schools.
The 6-3 decision in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe , 120 S.Ct. 2266, 2000, concluded that school officials in Santa Fe, Texas, crossed the line when they decided to hold an annual senior class election on whether to have prayers at football games and other school events.
The small school system in a predominantly Baptist area near Galveston had adopted the policy of student elections after it was sued by two parents for injecting religion into school affairs. Last fall, Marian Ward, the daughter of a local Baptist minister, led the prayers at the home football games.
"School sponsorship of a religious message is impermissible," Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the Court, "because it sends an ancillary message to members of the audience who are nonadherents that they are outsiders."
Lawyers for the school district said the election allowed students to choose whether to pray. However, the election itself violates the Establishment Clause, Stevens said, because it puts a religious question to a majority vote, and is likely to "encourage divisiveness along religious lines."
The decision halts a movement among Christian legal advocates to recast the school prayer issue as one of free speech for students, rather than an official establishment of religion.
Stevens stressed that students may pray privately on their own or with friends before, during or after school. But a student delivering a prayer over the microphone at a school stadium is not private speech, he said.
Narrow Application
The ruling focuses only on prayers at football games, but the broad opinion reads as though it would forbid all school-sponsored invocations. Still, it would not prevent a student speaker such as a valedictorian from deciding on his or her own to discuss religious faith.
In his dissent, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist said the Court's opinion "bristles with hostility to all things religious in public life." He was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
A different 6-3 lineup ruled in Mitchell v. Helms , 120 S. Ct. 2530, 2000, that federal funds can be used to buy computers and other instructional equipment for use in both public and parochial schools. This time, the liberal Stevens was in the minority and the conservative Thomas decried hostility to religion in his plurality opinion.
Still, Court watchers who read the opinion for hints on whether the justices would one day uphold school vouchers are left with no clear answers. The issue is likely to come before the Court soon because several states are giving some parents public aid to send their children to private schools.
Four members of the Mitchell plurality, led by Thomas, said they were willing to allow a free flow of aid to parochial schools on a neutral basis. Because the government sought to further education-not religion-it did not matter whether the schools had a religious mission, said Thomas.
Indeed, excluding parochial schools would reflect a kind of religious bigotry, he added.
"Hostility to aid to pervasively sectarian schools has a shameful pedigree," Thomas said. It flared in the late nineteenth century "at a time of pervasive hostility to the Catholic Church and to Catholics in general." Rehnquist, Scalia and Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joined the opinion, which could have worked a major change in constitutional law.
However, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor balked. She termed Thomas's open-ended approach "troubling" and agreed to uphold the federal aid on narrow grounds.
The lending of computers is not in violation of the Establishment Clause, she said, because "no funds even reach the coffers of religious schools." And, she said, publicly funded equipment cannot be used for teaching religion.
Justice Stephen Breyer joined O'Connor's concurrence in the case.
Justice Kennedy was the biggest swing voter, though. He went from the liberal majority in the prayer case to the conservative plurality in the computer case.
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Innovation in Usability and Advances in Deal Management Capabilities Fundamentally Changes How Sales Teams Optimize Deals
SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 12, 2013) - Apttus, the category-defining Quote-to-Cash solution provider, today announced the availability of its Apttus Configure Price Quote (CPQ) 6.0, providing innovative capabilities that significantly impact revenue maximization by optimizing deals, improving enterprise collaboration and streamlining sales processes. Unlike siloed CPQ solutions that require extensive integration between multiple systems, Apttus provides the only fully integrated Quote-to-Cash solution built 100 percent on the Salesforce Platform. All opportunities, pricing, product configurations, quotes and contracts remain completely in sync on the most advanced cloud platform.
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Golf Holidays in the Rockies Play Golf in the Mountains!
8 nights
Play golf amidst the towering peaks of the Canadian Rockies. It will be hard to keep your eye on the ball!
For the golf enthusiast, what better way to experience the Canadian Rockies than to play golf? Spend your holiday in Kananaskis, Radium, Canmore and Banff on this thrilling 9 day golf holiday. From the stunning mountain vistas of the Stanley Thompson Golf Course in Banff to the challenging pars of Mt. Kidd and Mt. Lorette, this is the perfect way to enjoy a golfing holiday in Canada.
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Silvertip Course
Silvertip Course Today, your golfing begins and what a course to start wi...
Canmore to Kimberley
After breakfast this morning, take a leisurely drive over to Kimberley in British Columbia, via t...
Trickle Creek Course This alpine course with it's creeks and somewhat tri...
kimberley to Panorama
Greywolf Course An early start this morning, will give you a mid-morning...
Calgary to Canmore
Upon arrival at Calgary, pick up a rental car and drive to Canmore (a drive of less than an hour). Canmore is on the edge of Banff National Park and offers two great championship golf courses.
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Silvertip Course
Silvertip Course
Today, your golfing begins and what a course to start with! Silvertip is one of the most gorgeous courses you will ever see and the only one in the Rockies that is located on the south side of the Rockies, meaning long summer days for playing on.The par-72 course has 600 feet of elevation change and championship tees with a slope rating of 153 and a playable course length between 5,100 to 7,200 yards.
ount Kidd will be your course. Situated in the Kananaskis Valley among boreal forest, the Mount Lorette and Mount Kidd courses are named for the soaring limestone peaks that serve as their breathtaking backdrop. The courses offer immaculate lush fairways, bent grass greens, over 140 silica sand bunkers, four sets of tee boxes, glacier-fed creeks and ponds, the cascading Kananaskis River and a variety of wildlife. After your round, relax at the clubhouse or at your hotel.Close
Canmore to Kimberley
After breakfast this morning, take a leisurely drive over to Kimberley in British Columbia, via the scenic highway 93. Stop for lunch and maybe a dip in the hot pools in Radium before checking in to your accommodation in Kimberley.
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Trickle Creek Course
This alpine course with it's creeks and somewhat tricky greens will prove a challenge for any golfer. Also designed by Les Furber, so your round on Silvertip will have prepared you for another of his courses. Total yardage using the back tees is 6,896.
The 18th is but a 3-wood away from Trickle Creek Lodge where you can visit the 19th hole before enjoying the rest of your night.
kimberley to Panorama
Greywolf Course
An early start this morning, will give you a mid-morning time tee time on the 18 unique and interesting holes of Greywolf Course in Panorama, a 1.5 hour drive from Kimberley. Designed by Canadian Doug Carrick, the spectacular Cliffhnager signature hole has golfers facing an island green perched across the aptly named 'Hopeful Canyon' with a cliff on the front left and back of the green.
Depart early from Panorama this morning and you can be in Banff for mid-morning or lunch time so you can tee off early afternoon.
Fairmont Banff Springs Course
Today, play a round at the Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course. Renowned for its panoramic beauty, the Fairmont Banff Springs Golf Course is a captivating and challenging layout set in the heart of Canada's Rocky Mountains. Stanley Thompson, Canada's master golf course architect, used his expert talent when he designed the original 18 holes in 1928. The course winds along the Bow River under the snow-capped peaks of Sulphur Mountain and Mount Rundle. In 1989, 9 holes were added, resulting in 27 holes of championship layout.Close
Banff to Canmore
Stewart Creek Golf Course
Your golf round today is at Stewart Creek located back in Canmore (about a 20 minute drive). Stewart Creek Golf & Country Club is consistently rated 4.5 stars by Golf Digest. Few golf courses in North America boast its spectacular combination of setting, extraordinary vistas and naturally sculpted fairways. Enjoy your round and return to Banff for your overnight.Close
Enjoy a free day in Banff. You may wish to golf another round, visit the Banff Gondola, the Upper Hot Springs, Lake Louise or just relax and enjoy the scenery.Close
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